California-born dancer/singer Heather Parisi isn’t a household name in the US, but some of our Mediterranean readers might recognize her. Back in the late 70s, an Italian producer discovered the flexible 19-year-old sunning on a beach in Rimini. Parisi was set up with the best thrustiest jazz choreographer liras could buy, pimped out in one seriously bedazzlicious wardrobe, and became an Italian TV pop sensation overnight.

There are so many transcendentally Stupid/Awesome aspects to this video for her song “Crilù”, it’s hard to know where to start. Just… enjoy.

Best part of this is that italian are still madly in love with Heather, and i know since i’m italian myself ^^
There’s absolutely noone here that won’t start that strange rubbing move when the song “cicale” starts, and here it’s not strange to hear it again sometimes ^^

Just so you know it, half of what she says has no meaning in italian.. or in any other language ^^

Man, everybody in that first video dresses like Kidd Video. It’s as if someone took an Italian kid in 1984, showed her MTV nonstop for about a week, handed her a box of crayons and then was told, “Okay, choreograph me a video.”

Since the ’80’s was fundamentally the first era to consciously sift back through the past five previous decades for Identity, it’s a bit of a struggle to force an ’80’s revival of any sort. It hurts, sometimes….